Experts advocate ban on home childbirth over rising maternal mortality

Stakeholders successful Bauchi State’s wellness assemblage person expressed superior interest implicit the precocious complaint of maternal mortality successful the state, urging the House of Assembly to fast-track authorities banning location childbirth.

Their entreaty came during a one-day grooming organized by the Bauchi State section of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) successful collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), aimed astatine improving reporting connected maternal and newborn wellness and reducing maternal deaths successful the state.

DAILY POST reports that astir 50 journalists participated successful the training, learning however to screen issues affecting mothers and newborns.

Speaking astatine the event, a wellness adept with UNICEF, Seyi Olosunde said the grooming was portion of broader interventions to rise consciousness and amended wellness outcomes for women and children.

He expressed interest implicit the prevalence of teenage pregnancies successful Bauchi, noting that 1 successful 4 underage girls becomes large early.

Olosunde added that galore teenagers consciousness ashamed of their pregnancies, stating that a important fig of newborns dice wrong their archetypal 28 days owed to preventable causes linked to u...